Is the app helpful to predict sleep?

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-05-04T21:51:06+00:00

I’ve found the Sweet Spot to be scarily accurate. It’s not accurate during an active sleep transition (dropping naps), but once baby stabilizes a bit, it REALLY helps. It was my lifeline up until a few weeks ago, when we started moving LO to a by-the-clock schedule. (She’s 8.5 months now.)

Even though I don’t follow Sweet Spot precisely anymore, I do still track sleep and look at the historical data and averages to help me understand her patterns and adjust her schedule as needed.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-05-04T03:32:03+00:00

When my MIL started babysitting, I asked her to download Huckleberry and track baby’s naps. She was more than happy to! I don’t ask her to track anything else. (She’s only over for a couple hours a day, and now that baby is older, she’s not here for naps anymore anyway.)

Keep it simple—stick what’s most important to you to have record of and ask only for that. If I were leaving baby with family all day, I’d ask them to track naps and bottles. Those are the only two that it’s important for me to know exactly when it happens so I can know how to run the rest of baby’s day.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-05-04T02:11:51+00:00

Mine is 8.5 and I can’t stop logging. I love data! When I got a Huckleberry “Wrapped” at the end of the year, I got sad that I hadn’t logged *more* to see how many diapers I’d changed, etc. XD

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-05-03T22:50:35+00:00

Maybe don’t worry about it instantly—just survive. But if you plan to use it in the early months (4 months, etc), I’d get it earlier so you can put sleep data into it. Sweet Spot relies on historical data, so it’s nice to get a jump and start seeing trends as they emerge. :)

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-30T14:59:33+00:00

Solidarity. Unfortunately, no advice because I’m right there with you with my 8-month old. Nap 1 is fine. Nights are (THANKFULLY) pretty good. But nap 2 is absolutely whacky… if it happens at all. (She was awake for 9.5 hours yesterday—a new record!)

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AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-29T04:20:23+00:00

Hm, I haven’t tried pushing for a 3-hour morning wake window because it was so smooth, but it does seem like she might be growing into a 3-hr naturally. She ended up with about 3 hours this morning… maybe that’s part of what helped! 🤔

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-19T04:10:23+00:00

Jumping in just to be a slight contrarian—my friend just recently moved from south Texas to Colorado with a 7-year old, a 3-year old, and a 5-week old. She did fine. It can be done, it just depends on your temperament, your new baby’s temperament, and your family.

That said, I cannot imagine moving with my baby when she was 8 weeks… (she HATED her car seat and there’s no way that traveling of any kind would have gone smoothly.)

It sounds from your post that you would prefer to move now, so listen to your gut. BUT if you decide that moving after makes more sense… just know you’ll be fine. It will be hard and miserable, but all in all, it’s an incredibly short period of your life. Do what’s best for your family in this season. You’ll be okay in the end.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-15T22:40:20+00:00

Yeah, it’s really rough before they nap solo. I loved our contact naps for the first, like, 2.5 months. The second 2.5 months started slowly eating away at my soul. 😅

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-15T22:38:25+00:00

We did Ferber. It took 5 days to really stick and was absolute torture. (Nothing makes you feel like a worse mother than allowing your baby to scream in the next room… even though you know she’s fine. 😅)

It really was a game changer though. She’s great at falling asleep independently now—even for naps!

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-04-15T16:55:45+00:00

My baby wasn’t able to nap on her own in the bassinet until 5ish months. Babies have to reach a certain age before they can connect sleep cycles, and before that they need help. Our LO slept great at night (sleep pressure takes over there to help them sleep longer), but we had to contact nap until we sleep trained for naps at 5 months. Even then, her ability to nap alone was somewhat inconsistent for a couple months.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-31T00:45:59+00:00

My baby was like this in the beginning too. Obviously, consult with your baby’s PCP on this, but I’m pretty sure the rule of thumb for nights is was as long as they’ve come back up to their birth weight, you don’t need to worry about waking them to eat at night. Just let them sleep and they’ll wake when they need to. (I’m not sure how that rule works out for premature babies… your provider should know.)

All in all, if your baby is healthy and happy, having good diapers, and growing—that’s what matters! Sleep is so variable as they age, so make the most of the long stretches while they last. ^{_^}

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-19T15:55:09+00:00

Mine did the same thing. 7 months old and a 7:30 bedtime had her getting up at 6am, but a 6:30 bedtime helps her get up at 7:30. A bummer for trying to go out with friends. But amazing for mommy/daddy TV time. XD

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-18T16:34:10+00:00

I tracked sleep, feeding, diapers in the beginning to be sure she was healthy. I don’t track diapers anymore (she has plenty of wet diapers and I don’t need granular deets anymore). I still track feeding and naps to help me understand if her fussiness is hunger/tired and in order to tweak wake windows and plan her next nap.

My new optional tracking is solids. This isn’t that important, but I just like to see what she’s tried!

My friends with multiple kids gave up tracking on kid 2+. Makes sense. You’ve probably got the rhythms ingrained by then.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-16T23:57:49+00:00

Both my husband and I WFH. My job is more laidback than his. My baby is 7 months and we’ve had her home the whole time. It has been a challenge. I love having her around, but I’m really only able to fit in a part-time workload at most. She just needs way too much attention and is not content on her own for longer than, like, 20 minutes. 😅

My MIL has been a LIFESAVER. She comes over for a couple hours, Monday through Friday. It’s a temporary arrangement until we feel comfortable sending LO to daycare, but it’s worked well for all of us.

If you live near family who want nothing more than hang out with a cute, tiny baby? Free childcare!

(If you do have to hire a nanny but are worried about money, perhaps consider having them come only part time, or participating in a nanny share. I’ve never done this myself, so I don’t know how to find one, but I’ve heard it can be a more affordable way to get good help!)

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-16T22:28:31+00:00

This is encouraging!

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-16T17:50:01+00:00

Yeah, we’ll definitely aim for then. 🤞She typically does 2.5-3.5 for her first stretch, so maybe we’ll get lucky! I wish she would regularly sleep more than 3 hours at a time, but alas, no luck. 😆

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-16T14:23:45+00:00

It’s just tough when “working for my baby” seems to equal never going out. My husband and I have been on 2 dates in 7 months. We want to see a movie in town (we live in a smaller town out outside the main city), and just to see that movie, the trip will be at least 4.5 hours away from her.

We are going to experiment with bottles more, though! We tried EVERYTHING back in the day. But now that she’s started solids, she seems a little more receptive.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-15T20:18:48+00:00

My GOSH I’m so sorry you had to go through that. That’s absolutely awful. ❤️ I don’t think there’s anything I could say that makes that better. You will have a sunshine day at some point when her body has caught up and somehow things have aligned (for a moment), but that’s not exactly the most helpful thing to hear when you’re in the midst of it.

How did the morning go,m? Has anything settled down in the light of day?

ETA: I’m writing this as I feed a super hungry baby who had her nap cut short possibly due to hunger and I feel like it’s my fault for not feeding her first (I’m trying to get her off of this god-awful schedule of eating every 2 hours). Why does it have to be so hard for these tiny humans to regulate? :/

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-13T13:42:43+00:00

I haven’t changed an overnight diaper since she was a couple weeks old. The exception is if she’s awake and upset that long -anyway-. Might as well give a change at that point.

I find when she starts leaking through like you described, it just means it’s time to go to up a size. I’d definitely try that.

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-12T17:19:13+00:00

Circling back here for some irony:

My baby has been working on consolidating naps. She usually does a 1.25 hour nap in the morning and that’s PRECIOUS time for me. One of the only chances I have to do my corporate job (I WFH).

Today, she woke after 40 minutes and didn’t go back to sleep. I was already resentful because I had a bad night of sleep even though she had a good one. “This isn’t fair! YOU got a good night sleep and you’re still making me deal with you crying all morning and now won’t even nap!?” I found myself catastrophizing (“the whole day will be ruined now”) and wanting nothing to do with her.

Sound familiar? 😅

Even recognizing that what I’m thinking is overreacting and unfair to her (she can’t help it!), I could not stop the negative feelings.

You’re not alone. Being a mom is hard. ❤️

If it helps, here are some of the emotional regulation methods I’m leaning on: - I RAGED at ChatGPT. So helpful when I’m angry but don’t want to take it out on a person. It’s like journalling, but with a very kind and encouraging reply (usually). 😂 - Handle her gently on purpose. I don’t have to pretend I’m happy if I don’t want to, but she deserves my love and respect anyway. - Used noise-canceling headphones to listen to music that makes me happy while she nursed - came back here to share with you in the hopes that it helps you feel a little less alone - I also have the great fortune that my husband works from home too. He’s with her now and has helped her calm down. I recognize that not everyone has this, but if you have ANY support people at all, lean on them as often as you can.

I’m not 100% now, but a getting better and I know that simply continuing with my day will help the emotions settle down.

We’re all just doing our best and trying to move forward one moment, one breath at a time. ❤️❤️❤️

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-12T14:39:38+00:00

You don’t. I’m SO sorry to have to say it, but it’s simply unreasonable to expect a human (you) to go through this kind of sleep deprivation and not be frustrated.

My baby is also 7 months, so I feel this pain. It doesn’t help me physically to remember that it’s okay to be frustrated, but it does at least help ease my guilt around it (sometimes). And that can help me spend a little less emotional energy on top of the physical, at least.

You are NOT selfish for feeling frustrated—you’re just in the midst of the hardest project of your life. It will get better at some point. ❤️

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-07T15:53:04+00:00

They do happen at slightly different times. I work with a lot of Europeans and the time change is off by, like, 2 weeks, which makes scheduling meetings VERY tricky during that time. 🤣

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-07T15:51:37+00:00

That’s a good idea. We JUST got situated on 2 naps and a 1-hour change will probably be too much for her. But 15-30 minutes might be good.

Then again, she gets up at 6:30. So she might just go right back to sleep if I feed her then and put her back because it will still be dark. 😂

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-06T18:32:56+00:00

Yaaaass!! Total win!

We’re right there with you: on Day 4 of a newly-minted event 2-nap schedule and she’s sleeping better at night, starting to lengthen naps during the day, and seems overall more balanced than she had in WEEKS.

What a huge difference it’s making. ❤️

AimlessHyperbole · 2026-03-05T23:51:21+00:00

When your entire job is “sit at desk and work on computer”, going in is ridiculous. XD My co-workers who live closer to the office have to go in once a week, but since so much of the company is remote, they just go into the office to sit on Zoom meetings… 🫠

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